Thread by @mattsheffield

People who aren't familiar w/ the traditions often don't believe that millions of far-right Christians think they're in a Bible story battling demons daily, and that anyone who disagrees is a servant of Satan.

All the details on this week's @TheoryChange: flux.community/matthew-sheffi…

My thanks to @crddouglas for sharing his learning on the episode. Please follow him to keep tabs on the dangerous delusions of "spiritual warfare."

This is a very important episode with lots of information not available in the mainstream press so please share this thread.

It would mean a lot to me if you could, please. We need to reach people who unwittingly help the lunatics.

If you want to keep going on this topic, my friends @kristinrawls and @eaton have done multiple episodes on the traditions and the psychological damage they do to children and adults at @CRightcast flux.community/podcasts/chris…

These dangerous delusions aren't just confined to hopeless losers. People with support from Republican elites have these views.

Here's a story of a GOP secretary of state candidate who told a TPUSA conference about her struggles against witches & demons

https://twitter.com/willsommer/status/1451254419304108033?s=19

Here's Paula White, who was Trump's top "spiritual advisor" and a federal government employee screaming about "Satanic pregnancies" and demons from the "marine kingdom" as reported by @RightWingWatch

I should add also that some of the very highest-level Republican elites see themselves in imaginary battles with demonic Democrats and moderates who are dupes of Satan. flux.community/matthew-sheffi…

You might also like an earlier essay I wrote that discusses how this neo-fundamentalism has given birth to an epistemology in which secular knowledge is impossible.

This anti-intellectualism protects and justifies any belief or conduct: flux.community/matthew-sheffi…

Deranged theology and broken epistemology are the perfect tools for corrupt politicians like Matt Gaetz and Donald Trump who use them to repel valid criticism and investigations as elitist ploys.

@chrislhayes sort of hit this yesterday